SSDs have become fast, except in the cloud(databasearchitects.blogspot.com)

550 points by greghn 2 years ago | 370 comments

Database Architects blog post arguing that local SSD throughput has exploded with PCIe 5.0 while cloud instance storage performance has stagnated.

B-Trees Require Fewer Comparisons Than Balanced Binary Search Trees(databasearchitects.blogspot.com)

155 points by greghn 2 years ago | 67 comments

Safe Optimistic Lock Coupling(databasearchitects.blogspot.com)

38 points by greghn 25 days ago | 6 comments

A Database Architects blog post on making optimistic lock coupling safe for scalable concurrent data structures like trees on many-core CPUs.

C++ exception performance three years later(databasearchitects.blogspot.com)

73 points by gpderetta 1 year ago | 51 comments

Comparing Integers and Doubles(databasearchitects.blogspot.com)

19 points by pfent 11 months ago | 9 comments

Fun with Char in SQL(databasearchitects.blogspot.com)

38 points by greghn 3 years ago | 13 comments